City of Sarasota v. Sunad, Inc.

WILLIAMS, O. EDGAR, Jr., Associate Judge.

The Appellant, the City of Sarasota, the defendant below, seeks review of a declaratory decree holding one paragraph of its sign ordinance unconstitutional. The Ap-pellee, Sunad, Inc., the plaintiff below, is a corporation engaged in the business of building, maintaining and leasing to advertisers billboards of 300 square feet on which are placed lithographed advertising panels. The dimensions of the billboards are said to be standard throughout the United States, thereby making possible the preparation of the posters in large quantities at resultant…